"If you're brown or LGBT, there is a certain level of death threat you have to let go, otherwise you wouldn't get anything done. You'd be a comedian/death threat administrator". This is both hillarious and utterly depressing.
Tom did one of the Edinburgh ones, but be great to get him back. Tim was booked in for April last year, but then everything got cancelled for some reason. Noel says he's up for it, but he's a busy man and difficult to pin down
Well your dressing gown triggered me to think about "Only when I Laugh" A show about old men whining about being in hospital, that my Dad watched. Why was that guy with appendicitis in there for so long? Oh shit, now I'm down a awful rabbit hole. THANKS VERY MUCH RICHARD
I'm still gutted you won Taskmaster Richard. I liked that you had so many fun stories about coming 2nd on shows all the time! That said, if there is a Champion of Champions Taskmaster again, I hope you beat Ed Gamble, he's way too competitive. I like him and all, but I like the idea of him not winning too!
There was a large community of maroons (runaway slaves) in the Great Dismal Swamp. So, in the Muppets Twelve Years A Slave, maybe Kermit could be the descendant of puppet frog slaves in the present, telling his nephew Robin about their family's history, and then he could also play a slave in the past.
That dressing gown reminds me of James Bonds one in Spectre. Although it looks like he did actually die at the start of Skyfall and the bloated corpse has washed up on shore. (love you x). I'm gonna regret commenting at the start again...
New Rule: Anytime you consider sending someone you disagree with, a death threat, you have lost the argument and should go take a really long hard look at yourself and your pathetic life...
Absolutely agree about the Muppets Christmas Carol needing that song. I have the VHS with it in and the DVD without it.... It makes no sense without it. But the song itself is a snoozefest for sure
Still waiting on Wendy Craig. She can’t have anything better to do all day surely. Also Doreen Tipton ( Gill Jordan) please. Meanwhile Nish still killing it, cheers 😀
I don’t own a dressing gown but I did have one of those round self hair cutting things developed for men. I used it once and decided, as a joke, to give myself a monk hairstyle, show the wife and finish it off. Sadly, I did the circle on the top of my head, placed the thing on the edge of the bath and it slipped off and fell in the water.
next episode, cutting your own hair, on camera, ideally: mid-interview more ideally: without warning, mid-conversation even more ideally: without either party even mentioning it going on. (and wear a hat in the intro to hide the horrific (or lovely) truth of the result).
Think most people have varying views subject dependent. For me it's based on logic - (not incld racism here as this is a no no) but any opinion I hold would non the less be labelled either right or left wing (so mixed) - therefore not everyone has blanket views or adhere to any political opinion wholesale.
52:41 - "The Bugle's fanbase is not unlike your fanbase Richard...you can't dangle the carrot of Wikipedia edit in front of these f***king a**holes." Yes Madame Lily, it's known as having a quirky and original sense of humor. You really ought to try it one day....
Nish if you plumbed Duchamp's urinal in and used it, it would cease to be a work of art. The readymade's presentation in an upside-down position is essential to it's repurposing as an objet d'art. Turning it the right way up and connecting it to your sewer outlet would be a gross insult to one of 20th century art's great geniuses. If you proceeded to waz in it, it could hardly make it any worse.
I think there are those neutrals out there. No one is truly neutral but I think in terms of an audience there are plenty of people who don't want politics in their comedy. I like to think the friends I have are broadly speaking a reasonably intelligent crowd and politics will occasionally creep into the conversation but it usually causes a degree of ire and everyone ends up happier when the chat goes back to football and nonsense. Overtly political comedians are pretty niche and there are plenty of acts that steer clear of political references of any sort. I'm sure the Spectator has a narrative it wants to weave but I don't think they are wildly off the mark about there being a large audience keen for bland neutrality in their choice of comedy.
Sure, it was more that the neutrals in that article were saying something that was extremely partisan. Luckily for people who don't want politics in their comedy 95%+ of comedians don't go that way. Nice for those that do that there are some ace political comedians.
Why do you feel like a victim of political opression when the BBC board is conservative, their political correspondent copy and pastes Tory party press releases as articles, and they paint the chanceller of the Exchequer as superman? Not to mention 11 years of conservative party rule. And the most read news papers and new web sites being conservative.
